Shropshire

Left to right Daphne Du Cros, Ruth Martin and Janine Potter with the new Shropshire Good Food Trail guide at Shrewsbury Food and Drink Festival
12 Mar 2024
The innovative food trail which put Shropshire’s top quality food producers firmly on the map is to be rolled out again in 2024 to feature even more locations. The Shropshire Good Food Trail was launched last year by the Shropshire Good Food Partnership. The fun and informative map and guide featured more than 50 venues growing, making, selling or serving the county’s finest and most sustainably...
23 Feb 2024
A special event to celebrate the Chinese New Year at a stately home on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border has been hailed a great success. Weston Park teamed up with Telford-based CultureKind Chinese Community to deliver a week of activities across the estate, culminating in a spectacular lantern parade. Schoolchildren, community groups, Weston volunteers and visitors took part in a series of...
Second oldest barbers shop in England to go up for auction in with Halls in Shrewsbury.
12 Feb 2024
Reputedly the second oldest barbers shop in England will be going under the hammer for a ‘snip’ at a collective land and property auction in Shropshire later this month. Auctioneers Halls believe that 15 & 15a Shropshire Street, Market Drayton, a three-storey, commercial property that dates to the 16th century, was used by barbers from 1810 until recent years. Now in a poor state of repair...
06 Feb 2024
Shropshire’s leading environmental education charity is trumpeting the success of its bespoke training programme this Apprenticeship Week. Each year, the Field Studies Council, which has its headquarters located at Preston Montford near Shrewsbury, recruits a new cohort of outdoor education apprentices and equips them with the skills and knowledge they need to deliver courses at one of the...
Halls Fine Art announces programme of antiques valuation events for 2024.
06 Feb 2024
Ever wondered how much a family heirloom is worth or whether items stored away in your loft or cupboard have any value? Could a piece of jewellery or silver, a painting, an example of Asian pottery, an item of militaria, an old book, a stamp album or a coin collection, that has been in the family for generations, be a hidden gem...
09 Jan 2024
Nothing is too much trouble when it comes to doing the little things to make life brighter for residents of Shropshire’s leading care home company. Whether it be having a chat over a nicely brewed cup of tea, reading a favourite story together or completing the last piece in a jigsaw puzzle – there are a million and one ways that carers at Coverage Care Services ensure residents retain their...
08 Dec 2023
The UK’s leading environmental education charity is celebrating its 80th anniversary having welcomed more than 3.7 million students through its doors. The Field Studies Council was created in December 1943 to offer meaningful outdoor education experiences for everyone. It has since welcomed schools, university students, community groups and a diverse collection of visitors including a group of...
27 Nov 2023
Bellway is building 164 homes at its development off Oteley Road including 139 properties for private sale – and there are now only two of these still available to purchase. It’s not the last chance to purchase a Bellway property in the town however, as work is underway on the homebuilder’s new 150-home development off Hereford Road, called Darwin’s Edge, while work continues at Copthorne Keep...
22 Nov 2023
Young people from across the UK have been able to bridge the “skills gap” caused by the pandemic, thanks to a scholarship from a leading Shropshire-based environmental education charity. Almost 400 16 to 25-year-olds applied for just 80 available places on the Field Studies Council’s Young Darwin Award scheme, with many saying they missed out on vital practical fieldwork because of the...
21 Nov 2023
Weston Park is raising a glass to winter with the launch of a new hand-crafted gin inspired by the flavours of the season. The stately home, on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, has teamed up once again with local distiller Wrekin Spirit to launch its new Winter Spice Gin. The Winter Spice Gin uses the finest botanicals that the winter season has to offer, handpicked from across the Weston...
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